Example sentences of "britain [vb past] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another passage evocative of past attempts to play the race card , Mr Tebbit wrote that ‘ most people in Britain did not want to live in a multicultural , multiracial society , but it has been foisted on them ’ . |
| 2 | That this had always been in the interest of Great Britain did not alter the fact that such interventions had tended since 1815 to favour liberal and nationalist causes . |
| 3 | A survey in 1987 found that 52 per cent of the workforce in Britain did not undertake training . |
| 4 | Admittedly in public Harold Wilson did his best to argue that Britain did not possess an " independent " deterrent with his insistence that the British Polaris force was dependent on some American components and other assistance . |
| 5 | The conclusion can be drawn that Roman Britain did not attain the same degree of monetisation as the Mediterranean cities . |
| 6 | It may be a sign of the times , but Craig Innes ' switch to rugby league in Britain did not draw much newspaper comment in New Zealand . |
| 7 | The demonstration of discrimination at St George 's Hospital Medical School led to a flurry of reform , but a paper published in the BMJ in 1990 showed that doctors from ethnic minorities who had trained in Britain did not progress as fast in their career as native European doctors . |
| 8 | The railways in Britain did not take the lead in developing the suburbs . |
| 9 | These examples have their parallels in Europe ; Britain did not let television loose during the Falklands campaign . |
| 10 | Tony Benn , who Mr O'Neill recalled was a member of a Labour Cabinet committed to nuclear defence , insisted that Britain did not need nuclear weapons because there was no Soviet threat . |
| 11 | By contrast , Britain did not find much support across the OEEC for its proposal to exclude agriculture from the free trade area . |
| 12 | The basic contention of their paper was that if Britain did not dominate an area , the Russians would . |
| 13 | Britain did not have free speech because of the libel laws , he said . |
| 14 | But whereas the year before the absence of yellowing was proof that Britain did not have the same forest decline as in Europe , its discovery did not show that Britain did have the same forest decline . |
| 15 | But Britain did not have to be part of that unity ; it could only be associated with it . |
| 16 | Unlike the US and Russia , the Ministry said , Britain did not have large stocks of fissile material and British production would continue at a minimum level to satisfy the need for the deterrent and naval reactor requirements . |
| 17 | He claimed Britain did not have the balance right between doers and critics . |
| 18 | To their dismay , however Britain did not seize up without trains . |
| 19 | The United States had a strong direct interest in seeing that Britain did not try to solve its payments problems [ in ways which ] would have added to the burden on the United States . |
| 20 | Washington agreed that a military solution was not an attractive option , and recognized that Britain dared not risk the economic repercussions of a break with South Africa . |